2. What matters most to you?

学习如何优先考虑适合自己的日常工作。

Learn how to prioritize what fits into your routine.

Get to your why (找到原因)

因此，当你开始制定新的个性化日常计划时，其中一个关键因素就是要深入挖掘什么对你来说才是真正重要的。下一章将专门帮助你回答这个终生的问题：什么对你最重要？

So as you begin to figure out your new personalized routine, one crucial ingredient is going to involve digging deeper into what is actually important to you. The next chapter is devoted to helping you answer this lifelong question, what matters most to you?

现在看来，这似乎是一个哲学问题，或者是一种放纵异想天开的愿望的方式。但重要的是，欲望是重要的。除非我们明确什么才是生命中真正重要的东西，否则岁月流逝，我们就会开始怨恨那些消失的时间。你知道那些我们本可以学习乐器或花更多时间陪伴孩子的岁月吗？

Now, this might seem like a philosophical query, or a way of indulging whimsical wants. But crucially, wants are important. And unless we get clear on what actually matters to us in life, the years run by and we begin to resent all that vanished time. You know those years where we could have been learning an instrument or spending more time with our children?

现在，幸好我们不必为了回答这个问题而奔波于世界的各个角落。什么对我最重要？事实上，你可能会发现，只要花点时间倾听自己安静的直觉，答案很可能就在你的心中。利用简单的工具和技巧，你可以帮助引出这些安静的直觉线索。

Now, thankfully, we don't have to travel to different corners of the world to answer this question. What matters most to me? In fact, you might find that if you just take the time to listen to your own quiet intuition, the answers probably already within you. Using simple tools and techniques, you can help draw out these quiet, intuitive threads.

因此，为了帮助你具体回答 "什么对我来说最重要 "这个问题，我们将探讨畅销书作家、子弹日记（简称 "子弹日记"）的创造者作家卡罗尔的一种久经考验的工具。无论你使用子弹式日记多年，还是从未见过或听说过，这种简单的日记方法都将帮助你从生活的乘客转变为飞行员。

So, to help you answer the question of what matters most to me concretely, we're going to explore a tried and tested tool from best selling author, Writer Carol, creator of the bullet journal, or bujo for short. Whether you've used a bullet journal for years or never seen one, or heard of one before, the simple journaling method will help you transform from a passenger in your life to the pilot.

好吧，我知道这是一个很大的承诺，但我们还是一步一步来吧。从表面上看，子弹日记是一种特殊的日记和笔记格式。但一旦你深入其表象之下，它实际上是一种采取行动、明确你的价值观、将你的注意力集中在对你重要的事情上的整体方法。因此，我们将聆听空白的第一章，然后讨论如何利用作家卡罗尔的工具来设计我们自己的日常路线图。好了，让我们开始吧。

Okay, I know that's a big promise, but let's just take it one step at a time. On the surface, bujo looks like a particular format for journaling and taking notes. But once you dive deeper beneath the surface, actually a holistic methodology for taking action, clarifying your values, focusing your attention on what matters to you. So we're going to take a listen to the very first chapter of the blank, and then discuss how we can use writer Carol's tool to design our own routine road map. Alright, let's jump in.

Excerpt from The Bullet Journal Method, Chapter 1 （摘自《子弹日记法》第 1 章）

什么时候记事本不仅仅是记事本，而是一个集待办事项清单、日历日记和正念冥想工具于一体的记事本。简而言之，就是子弹头日记。子弹日记提供了一种令人惊讶的简单方法，用于追踪经历、整理任务和组织信息。学会审视自己的时间使用方式，你就不会只记录自己做了什么，而是会习惯性地反思为什么要这么做。

When is a planner more than a planner, when it's a to do list calendar journal and mindfulness meditation tool all in one. In short when it's a bullet journal. The bullet journal offers a surprisingly simple method for tracking experiences, collating tasks and organizing information. Learn to interrogate how you spend your time, you won't just keep track of what you do, you'll habitually reflect on why on why you doing it.

浏览一下 Instagram 上的子弹日记标签，你会发现超过 600 万条帖子。这是 600 多万张洁白的笔记本页面图片，上面点缀着漂亮的笔迹、引人入胜的符号和精心设计的颜色编码。目的并不是无意识地填满页面。你的 "BUJO"，也就是人们常说的 "子弹头日记"，应该只留给对你真正重要的东西。面对现实吧。如今，真正的专注是很难得的。生活中充满了各种干扰，比如收件箱里的一堆紧急邮件。

Skim through the bullet journal hashtag on Instagram and you'll find over 6 million posts. That's 6 million plus images of crisp white notebook pages embellished with beautiful handwriting, intriguing symbols, and elaborate color coding. The goal isn't to mindlessly fill up pages. Your bujo, as bullet journals are often called, should be reserved only for what's truly important to you. Let's face it. These days, true focus can be hard to come by. Life is filled with distractions, like that pile of urgent emails in your inbox.

而且，它也充满了各种选择，就像你的 Netflix 队列中的节目一样。写日记不应该增加你的压力。相反，它应该帮助你专注于真正重要的事情。这样，你才能完成真正的目标。这就是为什么bujo过程不是从写日记开始的。它始于一份心理清单，旨在整理你的大脑。具体方法如下.

And it's saturated with choices too, like the shows sitting in your Netflix queue. Bullet journaling shouldn't add to your stress. Instead, it should help you focus on what's actually important. So you can accomplish your authentic goals. That's why the bujo process doesn't start with journaling. It begins with a mental inventory designed to declutter your brain. Here's how to do it.

拿一张散页纸，分成三栏。第一栏列出你目前正在做的所有事情，包括工作和个人生活中的事情。第二栏，列出你应该做的所有事情。第三列，列出你想做的所有事情。这项练习可能需要很长时间，你可能需要不止一张纸。没关系。一直做下去，直到你的头脑清空为止。

Take a loose sheet of paper and divided into three columns. And the first column list all the things you're currently doing, both at work and in your personal life. In the second column, list all the things you should be doing. In the third list all the things you want to be doing. This exercise might take a long time, and you might need more than one piece of paper. That's fine. Keep going until your mind is emptied.

您将看到一张您如何度过每一天的地图。换句话说，你会看到你的时间快照，以及你对如何度过这些时间所做的选择。这些选择是你想要的吗？看看每一项任务，问问自己，这项任务对我来说重要吗？它有必要吗？如果答案是否定的，就把它从清单上划掉。它不会出现在你的日程表中。在你打开笔记本之前，你就已经学到了子弹日记的关键一课。在你的记事本中，不写的和写的一样重要。

You'll be left with a map of how you spend your days. In other words, you'll see a snapshot of your time and the choices you've made about how you spend that time. Are they the choices you want to be making? Look at each task and ask yourself, is this task important to me? Is it necessary? If the answer is no, cross it off your inventory. It's not going in your bujo. Before you've even cracked your notebook open, you've learned one of bu's key lessons. What you leave out of your bullet journal is just as important as what you put in.

Get to work （开始工作 ）

你漏掉的和你留下的一样重要。作家卡罗尔的这段话是他多年磨练出来的。早年被诊断出有学习障碍后，作家不得不想出其他办法来寻找专注力和工作效率。重复一下本章的主要内容，你的日常工作清单应该包括你目前正在做的所有事情、你应该做的所有事情以及你想要做的所有事情。列出这份清单后，重要的是要仔细检查你目前正在做的每一件事。对于你写下的每一项活动，问问自己，这项任务对我来说真的重要吗？它有必要吗？

What you leave out is just as important as what you leave in. This message from Writer Carol was honed over many years. After being diagnosed with a learning disability early on in his life, writer was forced to figure out alternate ways to find focus and productivity. To repeat the key learnings from this chapter, your routine inventory should consist of all the things you're currently doing, all the things you should be doing, and all the things you want to be doing. Once you've made this list, it's important to hone in on everything that you're currently doing. For each activity you've written down, ask yourself, is this task really important to me? Is it necessary?

我们有太多的时间都花在了我们并不关心的任务上，花在了那些无法让我们更接近个人目标的活动上。如果我们一开始就不知道自己是谁，也不知道自己目前在做什么来充实自己的时间，我们就无法做真正的自己。因此，我们必须从培养自我意识开始。我们都知道，深入了解自己和自己的价值观是非常有价值的，但有时这可能会让人感觉过于艰巨，无法承担真正了解自己是谁这一艰巨任务。这时，编制清单就能帮上忙。它们能让我们更清晰地了解我们现在是谁，以及我们是如何展现给这个世界的。 在这样做的过程中，它们也为我们提供了一个指南针，让我们朝着自己想要成为的那种人前进。

So much of our time is devoted to tasks we don't care about, activities that don't bring us any closer to our personal goals. We can't be true to ourselves, if we have no idea who we are in the beginning or what we're currently doing to fill our time. And that's where we have to begin with a process that requires steady cultivation of our self awareness. We all know that it can be tremendously valuable to deeply understand ourselves and our values, but sometimes that can feel too daunting to undertake that huge task of truly understanding who we are. This is where making inventories can help. They offer us a clearer image of who we currently are and how we're presenting to the world. And in doing so, they also provide us with a compass when is towards the kind of person we want to become.

作家的这个研究成果的强大之处在于，改变是完全可能的。一旦我们举起这面镜子照照自己，就更容易审视我们需要做些什么才能达到目标。归根结底，像写日记和记笔记这样的反思性实践是为了整合。这是对我们过去、现在和未来自我的缓慢发现，使我们自身的不同侧面保持一致。为了让这一过程更容易开始，我们为你提供了一个工具，你可以在本章中找到。

And what so powerful in writer's work is the idea that change is entirely possible. Once we've held up that mirror to ourselves, it's easier to examine what we need to do in order to get there. Ultimately, reflective practices like journaling and note taking are about integration. That's that slow discovery of our past, present and future selves, bringing different sides of ourselves into alignment. And to make that process a little bit simpler to start, we've included a tool for you, which you can find right in this chapter.

My Routine Audit （我的例行审计）

Time needed: 20 minutes

绘制或复制这张图表，并列出你目前正在做、应该做和想要做的所有活动。

20 分钟后，思考一下你写下的内容。

现在，针对每项活动问自己几个问题： 这项任务对我真的重要吗？我是否可以为我的其他目标和梦想腾出更多空间？

好了，20 分钟计时现在开始。记住，不要限制自己。要梦想远大！

Draw or copy this chart and make a list of all the activities you’re currently doing, should be doing, and want to be doing.

After 20 minutes reflect on what you’ve written down.

Now for each activity ask yourself some questions: Is this task really important to me? Could I be making more space for my other goals and dreams?

Okay, 20 minutes on the clock starts now. And remember, don’t censor yourself. Dream big!

Recap of Chapter 2

什么对你最重要？

What matters most to you? 

- 你很有可能花了很多时间在对你来说并不重要的事情上，但这是你可以改变的。

当然，首先，你需要找出这个大问题的答案，而 Bullet Journal 可以帮到你。

• There’s a good chance you spend lots of time on things that don’t matter much to you–but that’s something you can change.

First, of course, you need to figure out the answer to that big question and the Bullet Journal can help.

- 创建你自己的日常审计。列出你 "正在做"、"应该做 "和 "想要做 "的所有事情。

本章中的工具会告诉你如何开始！

现在查看 "当前正在做 "一栏。对于你写下的每一项活动，问问自己，这项任务对我来说真的重要吗？它有必要吗？

• Create your own routine-audit. Make a list of all the things you’re ‘currently doing’, ‘should be doing’, and ‘want to be doing’.

Use the tool in this chapter to show you how to start!

Now go through the ‘currently doing’ column. For each activity you’ve written, ask yourself, is this task really important to me? Is it necessary?

- 记住：你漏掉的和你留下的一样重要。

清单可以帮助我们了解我们现在是什么样的人，以及我们是如何展现给这个世界的。最重要的是，它们还可以作为指南针，为我们指明我们想要成为什么样的人。

• Remember: what you leave out is just as important as what you leave in.

Inventories help us understand who we currently are and how we’re presenting to the world. Crucially, they can also serve as a compass, pointing us towards the kind of person we want to become.

参考：

https://www.blinkist.com/en/app/guides/reset-your-routine-with-the-blinkist-team